Blocked drains in Southampton

Across Southampton (SO14) it is mostly blocked drains and toilets, shared soil stacks, CCTV surveys and gully clearance, along with the emergency callouts that go with all of it. Southampton runs from Victorian and Edwardian terraces through interwar semis to newer flats and conversions, which means a lot of shared soil stacks, party drains serving several houses and long rear runs down an alley, so the first question on a blockage there is normally whose section of pipe it actually is. Every job starts with the covers coming up and a look at which chambers are holding water, rather than a price guessed over the phone.

No. Southampton is on the doorstep, so there is no travel charge and on most days we can be with you within a couple of hours of the call.

Yes. Southampton is home ground, so most days start and finish somewhere inside the city. Ring and we will tell you what we normally find in the drainage around city centre and what your job is likely to involve before anyone gets in the van.

It does, more than anywhere else we work. Southampton terraces frequently share a drain: the run behind the houses picks up several properties before it reaches the sewer, so a blockage in your bathroom may be nothing to do with your pipework at all. Flats and conversions add shared soil stacks to the same problem. The practical effect is that the covers get lifted along the run before anyone starts work, because that establishes both where the blockage is and whose it is, and those two answers decide the job and the bill.

Yes, and in Southampton it is often the thing worth doing first. The camera runs chamber to chamber with the depth and distance on screen, and you get the recording along with a plain account of what was found and where. That matters when somebody else has to act on it: an insurer, a buyer's solicitor, a landlord or the water company all want evidence rather than a description.

Southampton is around 1 mile from the Southampton base, so an emergency callout there is usually well inside a couple of hours and frequently a good deal quicker. The line is answered at night, at weekends and on bank holidays, and you get a realistic time on the phone rather than an optimistic one.